perspective

A method of presenting an illusion of the three dimensional world on a two dimensional surface.  

humanism

an emphasis on education and on expanding knowledge of individual potential and a desire to excel and a commitment to civic responsibility and moral duty

Naturalism

The style of painted or sculptured based on close observation of the natural world that was at the core of the classical tradition.

Idealism

Close to perfection

Savanarola

Dominican monk.  Reforming dictator who denounce the paganism of the medici and their artist.  forced people of florence to repent their sins.  Played a large roll in the decline of florence.

Sistine Chapel

is the best-knownchapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. It is famous for its architecture and its decoration that was frescoed throughout by the greatest Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and Sandro Botticelli. Under the patronage of Pope Julius II, Michelangelo painted 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²) of the chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512. He resented the commission, and believed his work only served the Pope's need for grandeur. However, today the ceiling, and especially The Last Judgement (1535–1541), is widely believed to be Michelangelo's crowning achievement in painting.

Florence

The Renaissance was a rebirth that occurred throughout most of Europe. However, the changes that we associate with the Renaissance first occurred in the Italian city of Florence and continued to be more pervasive there than anywhere else. The city's economy and its writers, painters, architects, and philosophers all made Florence a model of Renaissance culture

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